Shaun Marsh averaged almost seventy in inaugural season of IPL, scoring 616 runs, the most by any batsman in year 2008. Mathew Hayden proved he would've been an unstoppable force had T20 cricket evolved before the sunset of his career, scoring 572 runs, the maximum. Indian run machine Sachin Tendulkar too has been nearing end of his career, for a while now, and in 2010 he almost single handly stretched Mumbai Indians to the title, fetching 618 runs from 15 games. Since then, in 2011 and 2012, Chris Gayle has left everyone behind, making 608 and 733 runs respectively. Needless to say, he also own the record of most runs in an IPL season..

The battle for the orange cap in IPL 6 remained between Chris Gayle (for his few explosive knocks) and Michael Hussey (for his consistency). Hussey finally snatched it away as CSK went upto the final as well as broke the record of most runs in a season. Among others, Indian youngsters like Virat Kohli, Suresh Raina, Rohit Sharma and Dinesh Karthik impressed while MS Dhoni played explosively down the order. Among Internationals, Shane Watson, Aaron Finch, David Miller and Kieron Pollard made their bats talk.

Note : We've had two ties, decided by super over = Match 7 and Match 21. Bangalore have been involved in both of them, first losing to Hyderabad and then beating Delhi. The runs scored by batsmen in those eliminators are not counted into their career, like goals scored in penalty shoot-outs are not counted in soccer.

Most runs | Leading scorers in T20 in IPL 2013 so far.

Batsman (Team)

Runs

T20s

Inns

Best

Ave.

Srate.

100s

50s

4s

6s

Michael Hussey (Chennai)

733

17

17

95

52.35

129.50

0

6

81

17

Chris Gayle (Bangalore)

708

16

16

175*

59.00

156.29

1

4

57

51

Virat Kohli (Bangalore)

634

16

16

99

45.28

138.73

0

6

64

22

Suresh Raina (Chennai)

548

18

17

100*

42.15

150.13

1

4

50

18

Shane Watson (Rajasthan)

543

16

16

101

38.78

142.89

1

2

59

22

Rohit Sharma (Mumbai)

538

19

19

79*

38.42

131.54

0

4

35

28

Dinesh Karthik (Mumbai)

510

19

19

86

28.33

124.08

0

2

54

14

Ajinkya Rahane (Rajasthan)

488

18

18

68*

34.85

106.55

0

4

42

11

Rahul Dravid (Rajasthan)

471

18

17

65

29.43

110.82

0

4

64

5

MS Dhoni (Chennai)

461

18

16

67*

41.90

162.89

0

3

32

25

Aaron Finch (Pune)

456

14

14

67

32.57

135.71

0

4

55

16

Robin Uthappa (Pune)

434

16

16

75

27.12

116.98

0

2

42

12

Kieron Pollard (Mumbai)

420

18

18

66*

42.00

149.46

0

3

27

29

David Miller (Punjab)

418

12

12

101*

59.71

164.56

1

3

28

24

Dwayne Smith (Mumbai)

418

13

13

68

32.15

122.58

0

4

40

19

David Warner (Delhi)

410

16

16

77

31.53

126.93

0

4

41

14

Gautam Gambhir (Kolkata)

406

16

16

60

25.37

118.36

0

4

51

5

AB de Villiers (Bangalore)

360

14

14

64

36.00

164.38

0

2

34

15

Yusuf Pathan (Kolkata)

332

16

16

72

30.18

138.33

0

1

30

14

Mahela Jayawardene (Delhi)

331

15

15

66

22.06

105.75

0

2

39

6

Murali Vijay (Chennai)

312

15

15

55

22.28

109.09

0

2

27

8

Shikhar Dhawan (Hyderabad)

311

10

10

73*

38.87

122.92

0

3

37

5

Jacques Kallis (Kolkata)

311

16

16

41

20.73

96.58

0

0

35

3

Eoin Morgan (Kolkata)

307

14

13

51

27.90

127.91

0

1

28

13

Shaun Marsh (Punjab)

300

8

8

77

37.50

120.48

0

3

39

4

Virender Sehwag (Delhi)

295

13

13

95*

24.58

126.60

0

1

41

6

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